[viewvc-dev] Re: [viewvc-users] svnauthz

Chris Rodgers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using svnauthz from the trunk version of ViewVC.
> 
> Is it possible to configure different authz files for the different
> subversion repositories on my system? (Or do I need to reinstall viewvc
> for each repository?)

Hey, Chris.  Currently, there is no per-root configuration.  (This is
probably the single biggest annoyance preventing me from releasing 1.1-beta
right now.)  So you either have to put all our authz configury into one
authz file, or use the vhost support, or hack the ViewVC code.

Ohmygosh.  I just had a positive mental event while typing that last phrase.

What if I made the authzfile able to do variable substition of the rootname?
 So, you could set it to "/opt/svn/%(rootname)s-authz.conf" and ViewVC would
substitute the root name for the %(rootname)s before reading the authz file?
 As with anything that makes ViewVC more easily configurable (it seems), it
will probably incur a performance penalty.  Not sure.  Must dwell on these
things...

[Cc:ing dev@ for reactions.]

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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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